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Editors note: If youre tired of Kaitlin Cassidy/Paris Hilton posts on OTE, dont complain. Just stop reading, because this is another one.
Yesterday you got the QA portion that wasnt going to make it into the Friday paper. Today you get the official Kaitlin Cassidy story in the Life.Scene section. But, theres one other thing: points that didnt make it into the paper because they were longer, needed explanation or were not part of the question and answer style portion of our conversation.
Let me share.

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I have a 14-1/2 year old freshman daughter who was just asked to homecoming. I am allowing her to go, as they are going in a large group and I have just met the young man for the first time. I still maintain shes too young to date one-on-one and she cannot get into a car with someone that I have not met/do not know. What rules have you set up with your teen and dating?
I have a 19 year old son who did not start dating until he was a junior/senior in high school. He was interested in school activities, sports and working - so I was not prepared for this to happen so soon.
Please no sarcastic comments - I am looking for parents replies - not other teens. Thanks.

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Welcome to Monday when IS the next long weekend anyways?
All is not lost we just have today and four more days until the weeeknd is here again tough it out cookie.
So, lets get tough with out profile headline, lets make it WORK for us, and find that person that will provide some good times, no matter what day it is.
For this day, Monday, lets use this as our profile headline and make some friendly waves at some fun people:
t fight the unexpected, youre here, introduce yourself.
Have a great day.

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Well im a pretty black girl and i like a guy whos chinese but maybe he doesnt like me cause im black. We are friends and even went to the movies and kissed for a long time. but i have a feeling he doesnt want 2 be my boyfriend cause im black. he told me he only see me as a friend but if he saw me as a friend why does he always come over to where im at school, hugs me take me to class and hugs me goodbye??? I thought chinese were attracted to their kind and white people but could he like me more than a friend even when im a pretty black girl? How could i even tell if he likes me cause i keep thinking about the kiss..Thats what confuses me the most. im just as small and tiny as the small chinese girls but im part egyptian too.

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Hey there, it's been a long while. My computer was broken and I got into the lazy aspect of doing most of my computing from my iPod Touch. That thing is so damn cool. But however, I knew I had to get my laptop back up and running as I needed to start updating all my blogs again. Slowly I have. And the good thing about dropping out for a while is the fact that stories can build up and develop so that when the time comes to transcribe it to a blog, it is beefy and has some dimension to it. Being that this is a blog about dating, in New York City no less, I have much to tell. Let's start from right where I left off...

So I finally hooked up with Magnum Irish guy. If you read the earlier post, you know that he was totally hung and we couldn't hook up at first because neither one of us had any protection. But then the time came where we ended up back at his place yet another drunken late night and this time we both were prepared. Now after this kind of build up regarding his size, let me tell you that the sex was mediocre at best. It would have been disappointing had I been expecting anything great from this drunken idiot. But then the story gets even better.

So he then proceeds to tell me just how much sex he'd been having lately, and he was hooking up left and right all over the place. "Gee dude," I thought, "not quite the sweetest pillow talk, don't you think?" And he's going on and on about how much of a stud he is and at this point I thanked god I had the good sense to use PROTECTION with this motherfucker and I just wanted him to shut up so I could fall asleep and wake up tomorrow afternoon and sneak out.

He then proceeds to describe this one girl he works with that he swears wants to ride him good and he tells me that she's looking to have a threesome.

Did he just drop the threesome bomb?!?!

He shows me a picture of her and asks me "She's hot, right?" Oh god...

Needless to say I got him to finally shut up and go to sleep--or pass out rather--and just as I wanted, I woke up in the afternoon and left him still passed out, sneaking out with shoes and coat in arms, high tailing it past his roommate having coffee and reading The New York Times.

I hadn't seen or heard from him for like a week or two, but then I ran into him late night again and he was unbelievably, ridiculously, incredibly hammered. In fact, Thor broke the hammer over this dude's backside. He walks up to me and I can barely make out what he's saying and even the Irish bartender was like, "Dude, he drinks too much." Wow, you think?!?! After much embarrassing chatter with this idiot, the next thing I can make out that comes out of his mouth is, "You're coming home with me."

"No I'm not." I said. And I sure as hell meant it. He then gets on his phone and starts speaking to some other girl then tries to put me on the phone with her so that we can talk about....you guessed it, a threesome. I was so over it at that point that I just pushed him away from me and told him to go home. I have not really spoken to him much after that again. We still run into each other sometimes and I give a polite "Hi." and keep it moving. I have no intention of having any kind of deeper relationship with him other than that.

Now, there are two things that I do NOT do. One is the late night booty call. I never have, and I never will. I sure as hell have slept with a guy when we first met, but that is the open door for him to call me--at a reasonable hour mind you--and ask me to hang out with him. If he just starts calling me at times after 11 pm for nothing other than sex, it's never going to happen between us again. If he calls and wants to treat me like a human being, then yes, we can hang and hook up and do all kinds of things together.

The second thing that I do NOT do is threesomes. I am too damn old for that bullshit, period.

The next story after this one soon to follow. I'll give you a moment to digest this one.

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An intoxicating cocktail made of two-parts jealously shaken, one-part inhibiting feelings stirred and a lot of other peoples fears on the rocks has given the idea of mail order brides an entirely ignorant stink.  The flame of lies has been so intensely fanned by Special Interest groups (made mostly of frigid women) they even rallied the U.S. Senate to pass laws restricting and limiting American mens freedoms and rightful access to love by passing laws against foreign women who wish to marry men from the states!
The notion that most foreign women want to marry a man in order to gain citizenship to his country is a pure load of bull manure fabricated by the very women who have driven U.S. men to look for a loving partner somewhere else other than their home country. The reality is, most foreign women who are mail order brides have a high level of education, deeply cemented roots to their family and live very happy lives at home. What they are missing is a man to love, be affectionate with and with whom they can create a family of their own. In most cases these women would prefer if the man moved to be with them instead of them having to leave their home country. Of course this does not usually happen because the men are not willing or immediately able to make the move. So the foreign women make the sacrifice to leave friends, family and country behind in the hopes of succeeding with the man they have chosen to support and love.
With the National divorce rate at over 45 percent many men today ask themselves, How do I choose a partner where both of us can be happy together until death do us part? The following 3 steps can be a successful quick-start guide to the men who seek love and romance outside of the United States and help answer the question of can I really find my true love?
Becoming Scam Proof- Dont Be A Victim
Most men who seek mail order brides are worried the girls they meet will scam them. However, the bigger threat of scam lays in the agency or agencies whose services they use. If you are using an honest marriage agency the small chance of finding a dishonest woman gets even smaller. You see, most of the women who are mail order brides have the best of intentions and the sweetest of dreams when it comes to meeting a man who they will call their husband. What you really need to watch out for are the agencies who use bait-and-switch tactics, charge ridiculously high fees and dont deliver on their promises.
Be very careful of agencies that do not offer a minimum 30-day money back guarantee. Watch for very high prices for introductions; be sure to compare pricing against several agencies. If you pick 3 or 4 girls you find attractive but the agency does not have their information on hand or can not offer proof they delivered your message to her, be on the alert! They are most likely using models for pictures to bait you in and then switch to the women that are available but you are not attracted to. Avoid any agency that pressures you or tries to convince you to join a foreign romance tour. Stick to agencies with several customer testimonials, whose prices are reasonable compared to other services, who offer proof of delivery and most importantly who successfully introduce you to the women you like.
Avoiding getting ripped off by a girl you meet is really easy and a matter of common sense.  Think of it this way let us say you know for a fact your one-true-love is waiting in a room on the fifth floor of a building. And you have the exact address to this building along with the keys to get in, however; the building is located in the worst part of South Los Angeles and you have to walk across the hood to get to her. Common sense will get you to her and back safely, you dont need an army or even a gun. Just good judgment. You would not talk about yourself on the way there; you would not brag of being rich or wear jewelry with hundred dollar bills hanging out of your pockets. It is the same when communicating with mail order brides.

Dont brag or boast about yourself. Do not send her money.

Get this straight, a real woman who really cares about you is not going to ask you for any amount of money for any reason (including for the internet bill so she can chat with you). If she is asking you for money before you guys have met, let her go. And if she has agreed to marry you but you have not kissed and she wants to wait till you are married to kiss, let her go. These women are exotic they are not aliens. The normal ones act just like other normal women, they are proud (and will not request financing), they are affectionate (and will want to kiss and hug you) they are intelligent (they will want to earn your trust and offer you their confidence) so if you experience anything that is out of sorts or looks weird, let it be a red flag. When you have enough red flags let her go. There is an endless stream of fine women, who are looking for the right man, dont let your woman miss her chance because you got hell-bent on some con-artist who took you for a ride. Now that said, there are not many women scamming out there for marriage and dating and some that are, are not women, they are men posing as women. Really good agencies, for a small fee, will visit the girl and send you proof she is who she says she is.

Dont Fall In Love- Not Yet
When first looking outside of the United States for a mail order bride it can be easy to flip head-over-heals for the first or second foreign woman you meet, even if you are only speaking on the phone or via letters. Foreign women have an allure which can hysterically alter your senses like never before, so take your time. There are many women to meet and traveling is a big part of discovering for yourself who your soul-mate is. If possible develop a friendship with a few girls and prepare for a trip. Until then Cyber Date.
Get to know these girls by taking advantage of technology, get creative. Use free instant video chat and free calls with services such as Skype and or minimum cost calls with devices like Magic Jack. You can do all sorts of things including watching movies together, exchange video letters and more. Once you have spent sometime getting to meet high quality women, get ready for a face to face.
Get on a plane and get closer to your new friends. Plan as long a trip as possible, you will want all the time to spend with the girls you have been getting to know. Be sure to slowly take in the new foreign world you have been dropped in the middle of. Some guys rush in and do strike gold, they meet a woman right away, fall in love and are making wedding arrangements within 10 days. Do not force this type of outcome no matter how badly you want it. Love is not a speed dating round, it could start at one, but it grows with time. Be patient, she is there and waiting. Once you meet a girl who stands out from the rest, who really is the woman you are looking for, then you are ready. Now go for it!
Falling In Love- Going For It
The majority of women who are mail order brides with a profile on file at a professional marriage agency are educated women whose minds and hearts are flooded with creative energy, passion and the purest of desires for themselves and their husbands-to-be. They are looking for love, just like you. Now that you have spent time getting to know your girl, you have flown to meet her and her family at least once and you both have spoken clearly about your goals, dreams and life pursuits it could be the grand beginning. If you feel that special enchantment over you, it could be you are in love and ready for a life together. Go for it! Fall in love, follow your heart and see for yourself how sweet life becomes with the mail order bride who transformed into your wife and force of inspiration.

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Unfortunately today Nikki Catsouras, an 18-year-old car crash victim is making headlines once again 2 years after her tragic death. Internet users are still searching for Nikki Catsouras' death pictures and car crash photos even after the huge "Nikki Catsouras death photograph controversy."

Catsouras family was deeply upset over their beautiful daughter's death photos were posted all over the Internet and even took legal action. The pictures were taken by California Highway Patrol Officers at the scene of the accident. The family lost the legal battle but the California Highway Patrol apologized.

I can understand why curious (and frightened) drivers slow down while driving by a car accident but to actually search out the photographs of a young girl that died in a car crash shows a serious lack of empathy for the victim and perhaps even for human life.

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Looking good takes work just ask Jessica Biel.
After making a downright dowdy appearance at last nights star-studded Cartier event, the 27-year-old actress stepped out today (May 1) to do a little makeup shopping in New York City. Once fully loaded with a bag of face paint, photogs snapped her as she made her way back to boyfriend Justin Timberlakes apartment in trendy Tribeca.
Not surprisingly, this was yet another one of Jessicas staged photo-ops. It was no coincidence that she was carrying a Revlon bag as the cosmetics giant announced today that Miss Biel has been signed to be a new Global Brand Ambassador for Revlon.
She joins a celeb-packed lineup of fellow brand babes like Halle Berry, Jennifer Connelly and Jessica Alba.
Says Jessica: Revlon represents today’s modern woman. I am honored to be associated with this strong global brand and to be part of a company that has done so much for women around the world.

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If you want to become good at Facebook flirting, then first thing you need to understand is that hot girls get messages from random guys every day. If you want her to give you a second glance then you need to follow these 5 steps below and become amazing at Facebook Chat up in no time.
1. Your profile picture is the first thing she is going to see. Make sure it is amazing . If you have a photo of yourself next to somebody famous then that is a perfect conversation starter for her. If you have a picture where youre taking part in some interesting hobby then that will do instead. I personally use a photo where Im standing on one elbow as Im a break dancer. I know not everybody can do this but you get the idea.

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Attraction is an art: Attracting the opposite sex is an art and art must be studied extensively to be successful. There is nothing men dislike as much as woman with lack of subtlety. Men remain hunter but love it when the hunted answers their call in a discreet manner. Over-powering and bulldozing the man you aim to attract will just have the opposite effect. Be a lady and he will handle you as such.
No Spark, no future: Without chemistry, passion will lack and anything that lacks passion is a total waste of time. Sparks cannot be created or imitated, it is either there or not. Dont let your heart rule over your head. If your head tells you the other party does not feel same way or there is no possibility of a future with this person, listen. It will save you lots of heart ache, so rather steer clear or end the relationship during its initial phases than to find out later than he was never really attracted to you. Attraction is the best basis to build a lasting and strong relationship on.
Confidence shows : Men love confident woman. Confidence shows even before a person utters a single word. Tell him what you want and where you are going during your conversations. This will give him insight into your goals and ambitions. He will imminently know he is not dealing with an air head and the attraction will increase. Independence with a hint of naivety most probably tops the charts in terms of ways to attract a man. Dont be over confidant. This is usually a method of covering up an inferiority complex. Woman with inflated egos and unrealistic goals are super turn offs.
Be desirable: A man wants to be proud of a woman who is interested in him. Feeling good when you are with someone instantly increases attraction. Wear your best and he will think the best.  
Way with the at home clothes: Dump those comfortable-at-home outfits and 100% cotton underwear and substitute it with some silk, lace and velvet thingies. Invest in something that he will like. Men are attentive creatures and no amount of effort will go unnoticed.

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It might seem a little old school, but before you pop the question to your girlfriend, it is a good idea to approach her father for permission. This involves more than a quick, Oh by the way, can I marry your daughter during halftime.
While the traditional reasons for asking are now obsolete, popping the question to her father is a sign of respect and should be prepared for. No matter how well you know her dad, youll be surprised at how nervous youll be. Here are few tips to pop the question to her father.
1 Assess the situation: Before popping the question to her father, make sure you and your girlfriend are on the same page. Does she really want to marry you? Asking for permission only to have your proposal turned down is just an awkward day for everyone. If she is on board, speak with her about approaching her father. Perhaps she has some tips or, depending on her relationship with her dad, she might not want to you ask him at all.
2 Confidence is key: When popping the question to her father, make sure to stand tall, maintain eye contact and speak up. Now isnt the time to show weakness. Mumbling through an uncomfortable I uhh like your daughter uh, a lot wont get you anywhere. Present yourself as a mature, responsible adult, not the young kid that kept his daughter out past curfew.
3 RAISE THE SUBJECT: Begin by expressing how you feel about his daughter. Respectfully ask for his blessing to marry his little girl. This can go several ways. The best result is a hearty At this point, a firm handshake is a good response. With some fathers, it may take a long discussion. He may have issues regarding your maturity, age, cultural differences, or commitment level. Hear them out and address each one as best you can. With a little convincing and explanation, you may change his mind. If he doesnt, gracefully accept his response, especially if you decide to proceed with the proposal. There is still a good chance you are speaking to your future father-in-law.

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A friend who visited me in New York City once told me that simply walking around Grand Central Station, New York’s busiest train station hub, stressed her out.  s like looking out at a montage of people walking rapidly in every direction with the determination of soldiers preparing for battle.  Its like Im a small cog in a very fast moving wheel, and if Im not moving at the pace that everyone else is moving, Im bottle-necking everyone, she said.   After a few days, she, herself, picked up the elevated pace of walking, talking, and running errands.  Somehow, her originally penned itinerary felt underachieved and too relaxed.  Something about this place, this steely city, gave her the strange pressure to step up her game, meet new people, and search for invitations to exclusive haunts, as if squeezing every last drop out of this city can somehow fill her life with meaning and magic.

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Sermon Text: John 2:12-27

What got Jesus killed? We’re spending six weeks as a church, alongside all other Protestant and Catholic churches and a week ahead of the Greek Orthodox churches preparing for Jesus’ death and resurrection. Six weeks studying Jesus’ death on a cross. Six weeks preparing for Jesus’ resurrection from the tomb.

And in putting ashes on our head and declaring together as a community that indeed, we are all equally depraved and equally sinful in the eyes of God, we say, "from ashes we have come and to ashes we will return." In doing this we acknowledge that we are not worthy. And yet on Easter Sunday, resurrection Sunday, we will discover that God chooses to resurrect us anyway. For six weeks many of us deprive ourselves of a vice or pleasure and focus on our relationship with God. We pray, we repent, we suffer if only a smidgen, because Christ suffered first.

But Why?

Not why do we spend time doing this – the value of admitting we sin and turning from it and to Christ is undeniable by even the most secular cynics. My question is why did Jesus suffer? Why did Jesus die?

Unfortunately, I may never get the answer to that question. Oh there’s lots of theological reasons like that swell little drawing you do on a piece of paper where God is on one side of the page and You are on the other and you need a road to get to God so in the middle of the paper connecting You to God, a cross gets drawn because Jesus is the link between You and God.

Great. We’ve officially reduced the infinite and holy God to a stick drawing. Lovely.

I don’t understand that reasoning quite frankly. And I certainly don’t like the idea of a God dying in order to save me. I mean, God’s God. Why death? A bloody, grueling death? Why not just snap your fingers and get us all to be with you. That’s possible, right?

But that’s not what happened. So perhaps I may get a glimpse of the Why if we return to our sacred text, to the story that is told there. We’ll begin in John 2.

In John, as in the other three gospels, Jesus visits the Temple and upon seeing the men selling the animals for sacrifice and god only knows what else and making a profit of it right there, right next to the holy of holies, Jesus flips. He freaks out and in John we get the real details. He turns over the tables, his face turns red, his muscles bulge, he turns green…

Okay, I’m embellishing. But I loved the Incredible Hulk as a kid. And did you see The Rock play Ba-ROCK Obama on Saturday Night Live last week? Hilarious. And so I picture Jesus getting mad like that. I mean no where else does he trash a joint. When the prostitute is brought before him, he uses a tricky mind game to teach the perpetrators a lesson, then he draws in the sand. He doesn’t start throwing rocks or sand at them, hollering at them for their hypocrisy.

But in the Temple, he does. And therein lies what scholars consider to be the real reason Jesus got hung on a cross. It wasn’t that he was nice to outcasts, or cast demons out of people or made fun of the Pharisees. It was this… it was what he communicated to the religious leaders in the Temple that day.

According to Charles Talbert, a Johannine Scholar, what Jesus does in the Temple is render sacrifice IMPOSSIBLE. The money-changers changed money into shekels. Shekels buy the birds and the bulls. And without the birds, there’s no daily sacrifice for sin. And if there’s no sacrifice, then how can the people be made right in the eyes of God?

What Jesus does in the Temple is similar to what happens in the book of Matthew when Jesus is on the cross, “Then Jesus cried again with a loud voice and breathed his last. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split.”

Jesus essentially says, there is no more need for sacrifice because he has come. There is no need to submit yourself to ritualistic cleansing because one has come who has made you clean. There is no need to go to a high priest for a blessing and affirmation, there is one whom you may go to yourself. The curtain is torn, there is no distinction between priest and peasant, no hierarchy to get to God. Jesus and the Father are one and both are accessible. There is no need for sacrifice to appease God or cleanse yourself. God has made the ultimate sacrifice, God has died because Jesus and the Father, as Nicodemus confesses in the very next story and as Jesus admits 8 chapters later are One. Jesus and the Father are One.

Jesus says there’s no need for the sacrificial system anymore. Why? Because He and God are one. And that’s blasphemy. And in making that statement, Jesus made himself a death wish.

Remember the ten commandments?
Number One: “You shall have no other gods before me” (including yourself).
Number Two: “You shall not make for yourself an idol” (or make yourself one – oops. Sorry American Idol), “whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
Number Three: “You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God,” (for use the name of the Lord when referring to yourself) “for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.”
Deuteronomy 5:7-21 and Exodus 20:3-17

I think you get my point.

And consider this. In the Old Testiment and even some Orthodox Jews today wouldn’t even speak the name of God: Yahweh, so sacred and so other and so holy did they consider God to be. They wouldn’t even speak God’s name. So you can imagine how they would respond to someone who not only spoke the name of God but who equated himself as equal with God. “Why do you do this in God’s house? My house is to be a place of prayer.”

Webster’s defines blasphemy as “an indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity. When used generally in statutes or at common law, blasphemy is the use of irreverent words or signs in reference to the Supreme Being in such a way as to produce scandal or provoke violence.”

And really, what could be more irreverent than for a human to equate himself with God? God as a human? Indeed that is scandelous.

And yet, that’s what Jesus claims.

So each of the synoptic gospels ends with the story of Jesus in the Temple functioning as the symbolic “final straw” of Jesus’ irritating ministry. Healing lepers and calling prostitutes clean is one thing, but equality with God? Please. And John begins his story of Jesus’ ministry with the Temple cleansing for a similar reason. This event is so provocative that it must be told first. All the rest of the stories just add to its case.

And that’s it. That’s the crux. Yes, Jesus was a good moral teacher who many of us strive to live our life after. Yes, Jesus won the victory over evil forces in the world. Yes, Jesus ransomed his life so that ours may be saved.

But why?

Because He’s God.

Because He’s God, and we’re not.

Praise be to God.

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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. (Cora Harvey Armstrong)
The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. (Helen Hayes)
I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. (Janette Barber)
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. (Lily Tomlin)
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. (Carrie Snow)
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. (Laurie Kuslansky)
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. (Erma Bombeck)
Old age aint no place for sissies. (Bette Davis)
A mans got to do what a mans got to do. A woman must do what he cant. (Rhonda Hansome)
The phrase working mother is redundant. (Jane Sellman)
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. (Jennifer Unlimited)
Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. (Charlotte Whitton)
Thirty five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. (Caryn Leschen)
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. (Jennifer Unlimited)
If you cant be a good example, then youll just have to be a horrible warning. (Catherine)
When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow! (Kathy Buckley)
Im not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know Im not dumb .. and Im also not blonde. (Dolly Parton)
If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. (Sue Grafton)
Im not going to vacuum til Sears makes one you can ride on. (Roseanne Barr)
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. (Elayne Boosler)
Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. (Maryon Pearson)
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man) if you want anything done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher)
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career… (Gloria Steinem)
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut up with cookies.

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This Saturday, check into a five-star hotel and sleep naked... without air-conditioning. Dine by candlelight for discounts. Get free beer. Trek to Mount Faber for a view of the city lights going out. Or check on your Blackberry how the rest of the globe is celebrating Earth Hour, which takes place at 8.30pm in Singapore.

Although its just the second time Earth Hour is being observed here, businesses and organisations are taking a creative approach to get the public abuzz about saving energy.

Five hotels under Hong Leong Groups Millennium and Copthorne (M C) umbrella including Grand Copthorne Waterfront and M Hotel are going beyond just switching off their facade lights. Guests and staff are encouraged to do without air conditioning for the night.

The idea for Sleep Naked came from the fact that many South-east Asians living in rural areas sleep with little else but a sarong, said M C International Limiteds chief operating officer Yim Choong Hing.

On very hot days, much of the sarong would come off.

And to save paper, M C staff are promoting the cause among guests largely by old-fashioned word-of-mouth.

Elsewhere, discounts, food and the promise of fun are being rolled out mainly to get the buzz going for a good cause, establishments told TODAY, since business is already typically brisk on Saturday nights.

Making Earth Hour happy hour, Marriott Hotels Crossroads Café is giving a free half-pint of beer for every order of a pint, while Peranakan Places Alley Bar, Outdoors Café and Bar and Acid Bar are offering drinks like apple martinis at S$12 (usual price S$16 to S$18) all night long.

At Wisma Atria, retailers and F B operators will offer candlelight dinners, star-gazing and acoustic music.

CANDLELIGHT DINNERS, A SPARKLER PARTY

Guests of the InterContinental Hotels Group the stable includes Crowne Plaza Changi Airport and Holiday Inn Atrium will have their bills halved at some in-house restaurants during Earth Hour, provided they turn off their room lights.

But re not going to go into their rooms (to check), because it has to be based on trust and environmental awareness, said Crowne Plaza Changi Airports sales and marketing director Bryan Gabriel.

Diners at Four Seasons Hotels One-Ninety restaurant will be part of a 21-hour vigil, as 35 of its sister properties spanning Sydney to Hawaii, hold candlelight dinners. A dinner menu from S$48 will feature organic and local produce.

At Concorde Hotel (the former Le Meridien), fresh fruit, cookies and non-alcoholic drinks will be on-the-house at the hotels poolside, and guests will be given sparklers and entertained by a violinist and an accordionist.

If guests stay in their rooms, theyll have the lights, air-con and television on how does that then support Earth Hour? So we thought, lets have a party, lets meet them and chat with them, said Ms Evelyn Neo, its director of marketing communications.

ITS IN THE STARS...

For those not up to shelling out money for dinner or a hotel room, there are other fun (and innocent) things to do in the dark.

Besides the official Earth Hour events at the Botanic Gardens and the Esplanade Park, there are activities catering to nature lovers, heartlanders, students, even virtual world fans.

For the latter, Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion has set up a dedicated mobile site for users to connect with others around the world, and to receive Earth Hour updates.

Environmental group ECO Singapore is reaching out to 30,000 households with the help of 1,200 student volunteers, with community events at five locations the Esplanade, Zheng Hua Community Club, Hong Kah North Community Club, Bedok Community Centre and Damai Secondary School. On the cards are cultural performances and movie screenings.

Fellow eco group Nature Trekker Singapore will conduct a night walk to Mount Faber for a birds eye view of the city lights going out at 8.30pm.

The number of participants will be capped at 50, so as not to disturb the lovers there, quipped founder Ben Lee.

Fortune telling, palm-reading and star gazing will be held at the Singapore Management Universitys Campus Green for students and the public, even as exams loom for some in two weeks.

SMU wanted to support the World Wide Fund for Nature and take students minds off the exams for an hour, said senior corporate communications manager Kim May.

With so much going on, there is little reason not to switch off at 8.30pm on Saturday. s sexy, its fun and its the right thing to do, said Ms Mr Yim.

GET OFFICIALLY INVOLVED

Official events this Saturday will take place at the Botanic Gardens and Esplanade Park, courtesy of Earth Hour organiser the World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature.

Pack a picnic basket and head down to the Esplanade Park for the carnival from 5pm, before counting down to the big switch off with WWF Singapores managing director Amy Ho. Local bands and DJs will continue to entertain celebrants during the hour of darkness.

At the Botanic Gardens, The Climate Projects Singapore-based director Tony Boatman will give a presentation based on Al Gores 2007 documentary An Inconvenient Truth at the Botany Centres Function Hall, at 2pm. Youll need to register as seats are limited.

The official events will be powered with biodiesel, thanks to Alpha Bio Fuel.

Other events include a candlelight reception and talk by social media groups at Tangs Island Café; Sacred Funks yoga and meditation session at Stamford Green in Fort Canning Park; and 400 volunteers lighting candles to form the phrase We Vote Earth! on the Formula One track adjacent to the Singapore Flyer.

A slew of corporates will do their part by switching off lights on parts of their premises, include their facades and signage, such as Cathay cineplexes, HSBC Building, Marina and Meritus Mandarin Singapore, Suntec Singapore and 29 CapitaLand Singapore properties.

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You know what? I'm going to say it.

Honestly, I've said it time and time again, and I think there is such a thing as being too frugal.

Shoes DO make me happy. Buying a cute leather bag DOES make me happy. Drinking a Chai Latte makes me happy.

It doesn't make me happy forever, that's true. The lust for the bag wears off after about 5 months, but I still believe that every time I look at the bag and touch it, I get this warm tingly feeling of "oh she's so soft and YELLOW!"

I still feel that way about a lot of my wardrobe. I remember when I bought it, with whom, how I felt and how much I paid.

It's like a physical memento or reminder of how I felt at that exact moment.

Anyway, if we think about it, does anything really make you happy forever? Even the free stuff?

After it all wears off (the happiness), you just need another hit of it again. Like a drug.

Case in point: I saw my sister for 4 days.

I was super happy, super excited, had a GREAT time (even while powering through all of her tissue boxes in an attempt to stop the allergen-happy Niagara Falls from coming out of my nose due to her cute Bichon Frise.)

But now that I'm back, I'm still happy, but the happiness has worn off in the sense that I feel like my heart has been lifted and healed during the time I spent with her... but now I just kind of miss her and want to see her again and help her organize her apartment.

My random, blabbering point is that NOTHING lasts forever.

And there could be something said for "you cannot buy happiness", but it cannot be the be-all and end-all.

I had to end up spending money to go see my sister, and it's true, if I had spent the money on a bag or a new wardrobe I would not have been as happy.

But I gotta say, there must be something wrong in my brain because while I was out and with her, I was pretty darn happy buying that purse.

So who's to say that it's set in stone, that you cannot buy happiness? In what way do we mean it?

Should I stop seeing my sister because it always costs at least $400 just for the trip/transportation to see her?

Does it mean that I should stop spending money on travelling and seeing the world because I could just as easily rent a DVD and watch the journey of another person through Japan, eat some sushi on the couch and call it a vacation to Japan?

Should I stop buying all material goods because they don't contribute to my quality of life (as per PF bloggers out there)? (but they totally do. I love my bag)

Should I give up everything and become a monk because it's clear that the best things in life are free?

That all sounds inane to me, especially since my priorities are not about getting out of debt any longer.


If you deprive yourself of a small latte treat just because you think to yourself "oh this doesn't contribute to my quality of life the way seeing my sister would", it just sounds stupid.

As though you are able to rank that buying a coffee would be less important than seeing my sister, and even if you are able to afford it, you don't because it doesn't have as much of a happiness impact.

See, to me, it's all about choices.

If I HAD to save money to buy the ticket to go back and see her, then I'd give up all the chai lattes in the world just to save the cash to do that.

But since I don't, I won't and I didn't.

If I wanted a latte, and I am craving it, and I know it'll make me happy, then obviously it contributes to my quality of life to be able to spend the $3 on it since I am NOT in debt and I set priorities.

I just don't get it when people beat themselves up for spending $3 on a latte, when they can really afford it and most importantly THEY WANT IT.

Sure, maybe taking a free nap for a couple of hours instead of seeing a friend over $3 lattes would be cheaper, but that's up to YOU to decide that it's a better idea and that it enriches your life in doing so.

However, I am going to always pick my friend (lunch, dinner, coffee, whatever) rather than hole myself up in the bed and nap my time away thinking that it is what makes me happier in the long run because I ended up saving the $3 and could just call my friend on the phone for free instead.

Doesn't that sound stupid to you? It does to me. Maybe I'm stupid then.

I also don't eat out all the time. Quite rarely actually. But people think I do that to save money and truth be told, my drive for eating at home rather than eating out comes from the simple fact that BF makes better food at home, in a bigger quantity, and in higher quality.

It's not because of money.

Our grocery budget is around $700/month for the 2 of us as a result, but if we spent $350 on groceries and $350 on eating out, it'd be the same thing in the end. We just choose to cook spend it on eating well at home.

And we can always cut back. We just don't want to.

But others will deprive themselves of being able to go out and enjoy themselves just because they feel bad having spent the cash, even though they could afford it and want to do it.

If it makes you happier to save the money, then save it.

But don't do that stupid in-limbo thing where end up feeling bad and ruining the previously enjoyable experience of dining out just because of money you spent.

Spend it, enjoy it and be done with it.

I also don't do the eco-friendly, minimalist schtick just to save money. It's a nice bonus, but I do it for other reasons -- to help the environment and because I'm a paranoid kind of person about untested chemicals for long-term human usage.

Plus, it helps with travelling. I have to bring less liquids and gels now.

And I feel like everyone is cutting back or depriving themselves JUST to save money and not for any other reasons, and they only see the negative in what they're doing rather than the positive.

The worst is then these PF bloggers go and make other people feel AWFUL for what they consider to be "extra extravagances", like being able to eat a breakfast out each day, or buying a latte in the mornings to start your day off.

*rolls eyes*

$5 a day is $150/month. If you can afford it, go for it. If not, then cut back to once a week. It's simple.

Just set priorities.

This frugality thing is getting to be too crazy for words, y'all are crazy.

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new pad for her abnormally large brood. Octomoms father Ed Doud reportedly purchased a $564,000, 4-bedroom home in La Habra, CA for his baby-loving daughter. Tomorrow Kaiser Permanente, the hospital where the octuplets have been since their birth, will inspect her new home before authorizing her eight new babies to go home with her.
In related completely random Octomom news, paramedics were called to Nadyas soon-to-be new house when one of her neighbors ran over his wife.
Nadyas already bringing the crazay to the neighborhood.

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