Weight!

I came across a pretty good article, basically it says that if you want to lose weight turn your fat into muscles!  That's one of the reasons why guys lose weight faster than women, their muscles.


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Sounds good to me.  I think I'll try it.  Let's find a way to turn our fat into muscles.

Let me know which way you are going to work it!

Barbie Dolls

OHHHH - Now I get it!!!!

So, I guess Nicki Minaj is supposed to be a Barbie Doll.  Oh, okay, a doll, so the way she acts and behaves, it's like she is a doll, created by Mattel, that has come to life - that explains her personality.

Lil Kim is angry because Lil Kim is "the original" Barbie Doll?

Okay.

So the question is, who one is the better doll?  Hum, I would say...
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Kim Kardashian!

According to Wikipedia:

Ruth Handler creater of Barbie

Barbie: the beginning

Ruth Handler had noted that her daughter Barbara, who was becoming a pre-teen, preferred playing with her infant paper dolls and giving them adult roles. She wanted to produce a plastic doll with an adult body but her husband and Mr. Matson thought it wouldn't sell. But when the Handlers were on a European trip, Ruth Handler saw the German Bild Lilli doll (which was not meant for children at all; rather a gag gift for adults) in a Swiss shop and brought it home.




Back home she reworked the design of the doll and re-named her Barbie after her daughter. Barbie debuted at the New York toy fair on March 9, 1959. Barbie became an instant success, rocketing the Handlers and their toy company toward fame, if not fortune as well. Later, they would add a boyfriend for Barbie named Ken, after Handler's son as well any many more other "friends and family" for Barbie's world.

:( Ut oh, NO I DON'T GET IT -

why would a live human being want to be "a plastic doll with an adult body?"

Happy Holidays

The Christmas Song


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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe,
Help to make the season bright.
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow,
Will find it hard to sleep tonight.

They know that Santa's on his way;
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh.
And every mother's child is going to spy,
To see if reindeer really know how to fly.

And so I'm offering this simple phrase,
To kids from one to ninety-two,
Although its been said many times, many ways,
A very Merry Christmas to you 

President pardons a couple of turkeys!

LOL - the President pardoned a pair of turkeys - Apple and Cider (: /

The two turkeys were raised on a Modesto, Calif. farm.  Modesto in the house! :)

The Los Angeles Times reported:

As if on cue, Apple let out a proud gobble as Obama made the pardon official. The president then made his way over to the bird, giving its head a pat down as he quizzed its owner about the wattle. The first daughters declined the chance to pet it as well.

Way to go President Obama...unfortunately the turkey I had this past November 25th was prosecuted.  Sorry.

Let's Read!!!

Hey book lovers, let's read - Night Biters.

(Back Cover)
When sixteen year old Jamilah and her fourteen year old brother Omari arrive in Oakland, California, a mysterious stranger gives Omari a magical compact disc and a crucifix.  Upon listening to the CD, the siblings learn that the lyrics and the crucifix can aide them against the danger of vampires.

But danger has never been as attractive as the handsome and charismatic heartbreaker Tyrone, or as beautiful and deadly as the vengeful Jennifer.

Soon the siblings find themselves in twined with rival gangs, the Crimsons and the Cobalts.  Their leaders transformed into vampires whose hatred for one another threaten to destroy the city.

Fasten your seatbelts, you're going to a place bustling with taggers, skaters, gangs, girls that literally kick butt, hip hop and vampires.

Let's meet back here next month - December 24th, 2010 and talk about it.

To get your copy, please check out www.urbanhorror.com

The author, A.J. Harper lives right here in the bay area and the book is straight out of Oakland!

Iron Jawed Angels - Movie

Starring Hilary Swank and Frances O'Connor.

Netflix:

From 1912 to 1920, a group of fiery young suffragettes led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) band together to wheedle the United States into adapting a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. Along the way, they incur the wrath of President Woodrow Wilson (Bob Gunton) and anger other suffragette leaders (Anjelica Huston and Lois Smith). Directed by Katja von Garnier.

Two thumbs up!

A great movie to see anytime.  It wasn't just about voting, it was about women earning the 'right' to vote.  Yes, we had to earn the right, and the movie shows what these women (Alice Paul and Lucy Burns) were willing to do to help ALL women get this right - like being thrown into prison and being force fed by a tube shoved down their throats. 

Watching a movie like this helps you understand the RIGHT to stand as a Sophisticated Lady!

Get the movie and let me know what you think.

Date Rape

In the movie, For Colored Women, one woman was date raped.  Unfortunately, this is something that happens too often to women - at this point in life, probably men too.  Like my blog's opening song says, "I Want To Know What Love Is".  We're all just looking for love. 




So, here are my thoughts about date rape.




1.  It's usually not about the act of sex - it's about power.

2.  Any person that thinks they can just take something from you, is a spoiled brat!  Only children take toys from other children.

3.  If someone aggressively tries to take something from you, 9 times out of 10, it's probably because someone aggressively tried to take something from them - and probably did. :(

4.  People need to feel powerful in some sort of way.  Conquering another person gives this weak minded person power - in their mind (it's not true, they are weak for doing it).

So, notice the pattern here?  The problem lies within the other person - not you. 

YOU ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.

This act of violence is terrible, but don't let it stop you for continuing to look for love.  God's love! 

BUT NOW - you don't wear red to a crips' party and you don't wear blue to a bloods' party.  You don't wear a doe's perfume into a den of lions and you don't take your pit bull over to .... house.  Okay!? :)

I'm not a therapist, or PH.D, or none of that.  I'm just an auntie-cousin that loves all of my Sophisticated Ladies and that's my opinion.  I'm here to talk.

Talk back :)